On this day in 2016 in Japan, Bokudake ga inai machi (aka Erased) enjoyed its very first theatrical release.
Directed by Yûichirô Hirakawa from a story by Kei Sambe and Noriko Gotô, the SciFi/Fantasy feature starred Tamae Andô, Kasumi Arimura, Yasushi Fuchikami, Kôta Fudauchi, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Seiji Fukushi, Kento Hayashi, Yuriko Ishida, Keiko Morikawa, Kanna Moriya, and others.
According to our friends at IMDB.com, here's the plot summary:
"Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance."
-- EZ